"On average I treat about 10 people a day, every single day, but Fridays are always the worst" Sam, the 25 years old, young doctor said to BBC correspondent about victims of snipers in Bustan al-Qasr crossing point. "Yesterday about 30 people were shot here." He added to BBC....

   A number of the free army brigades and relief activists in Aleppo and its countryside have followed extensive awareness sessions in step to deal with any chemical assault besides the necessary procedures like emergency treatment and rescue, under the supervision of the...

Assad security arrested two young activists in Jaramana near Damascus  Maram Dawood, member of the National Coordination Body and the Syrian Medical Committee, was detained by the Syrian authorities from the Jaramana checkpoint on Friday 13/09/2013 along with his friend...

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a UN report detailing a chemical weapons attack in Syria had reshaped international opinion on the actions of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Obama said the UN report released Monday, which did not directly attribute blame, nevertheless proved everything...

Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Tuesday that the U.S.-Russian agreement for  Syria  to hand over its chemical weapons must be backed by a U.N. resolution with the teeth to force compliance from President Bashar al-Assad. "That will happen only with the  United...

  In the Syrian conflict, the Russian government has firmly sided with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Russian author and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek offers a different view. There is no consensus toward the Syrian crisis in Russia. It varies from...

Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Jarba urged the Security Council Tuesday to adopt a resolution under Chapter VII of the UN charter allowing use of force to cripple Syria's "war machine." In a speech on Arab televisions, Jarba said "ending the killing of Syrian people is only possible by...

  Beheaded in front of children, Assad's thugs are dragged to their doom and butchered like animals in some of the most brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky. Moments later, the...

   Egypt threatened ore than 100 Palestinians and Syrians of extradition to Bashar al-Assad' Authorities. Egyptian coast guards have arrested 109 Syrians and Palestinians who tried to travel illegally across the sea to Italy, last...

Deadly conflict in Syria meant that as many as 400 schools had to close their doors, depriving children of education The deadly Syrian conflict is making the maintainance of a functioning educational process in the war-torn country even more difficult, as over a million children...

Italian authorities have released a dramatic video showing the rescue of 158 Syrian refugees off the coast of Sicily, including a heavily pregnant woman who gave birth shortly after arriving, according to 'The Local' newspaper. In need of emergency treatment, the pregnant woman was taken...

  Al-youm al-Sabe'a newspaper (The seventh Day) , which managed to get an exclusive access to records for Hosni Mubarak, the ousted Egyptian President, continued publishing these records, in some of them, Mubarak commented on what has been happening in Syria. In a reply to a...

“Bleeding Heart” a short documentary film produced by the Specialised Media Centre in Homs neighborhoods Union. The film tells stories and sufferings of many children in besieged Homs. Sama Homs, a media activist and her friend Nidal Khattab, a camera man filmed and directed the documentary,...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have been rescued in rough seas and brought to Italy's southern coast in the last 3 days, the Italian coastguard said on Saturday. Three boats carrying 809 refugees and possibly some migrants, including many women and children, were intercepted off the...

A group of professionals and former army officers launched Monday a petition urging Egypt's military chief, who ousted the country's first freely elected leader, to run for president, highlighting the yearning for a strongman to take charge after nearly three years of turmoil. The campaign...

President Obama hoped to seize control of the news cycle Monday. Instead,  events overtook him  and his message again. As reports broke of a deadly shooting rampage at the Navy Yard, three miles from the White House, the president was forced to alter his script. Over the past three...

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani may be willing to shut down the nuclear facility in Fordow, if the West agrees to remove all sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, intelligence sources told German newspaper Der Spiegel in a report on Monday. The sanctions imposed by Washington amid a...

    It’s far from what the Turks had in mind. In late 2009, at the height of its detente with  Syria , the Ankara government of  Recep Tayyip Erdogan  lifted visa requirements for Syrian nationals and floated plans for future energy cooperation,...

The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched northeastern and southwestern Mexico with torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting highways and setting off landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths....

The fighting, in which nearly 100 people have been killed, has highlighted lingering grievances in the Catholic-majority country despite its growing  economy  and an agreement with the biggest Muslim rebel group that was meant to bring peace. The guerrillas who stormed into...